2h ago
00.59 GMT
Maduro
lands in New York before helicopter transfer amid high security
Hello,
this is Rebecca Ratcliffe in Bangkok, taking over from my colleagues in London.
We’ll be bringing you the latest developments after the capture of Venezuelan
leader Maduro by US troops.
Images
from agencies appear to show the journey made by Maduro and his wife, Cilia
Flores, as they were flown into the US.
A plane
believed to have been carrying the couple landed at Stewart Air National Guard
Base in Newburgh, New York on Saturday evening. Maduro was escorted off the
plane surrounded by FBI agents, according to a report by AFP.
Maduro
and Flores were then taken by helicopter to the Westside Heliport in Manhattan,
arriving at 7pm according to the New York Times.
Heavy
security awaited Maduro in Manhattan, images showed. He was due to be taken to
the offices of the US Drug Enforcement Administration, then to the Metropolitan
Detention Center, a federal facility in Brooklyn, according to US media. Rapper
Sean “Diddy” Combs was held at the same facility during his trial last year, as
were other high profile prisoners including Ghislaine Maxwell.
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